Click the link or paste it into your URL. There's a warning message in red letters you have to click past telling you it's not appropriate viewing for children. Click past it and you'll get the video. No, this isn't porn. It's just something to think about as we spend the next few weeks remembering 9-11 and seething about what these bastards did to us.

not a sniper. this video has made its rounds on the net. most have it saying that its a .50 cal taking out taliban in afghanistan. one of the posters had it right, it's a hunter picking off some small animal.

You're exactly right - it's not a sniper video. It's rock chucks (whatever they are) being shot out West somewhere. I once tracked the original down to a hunter website where it was described for what it is.

There's nothing magic about .50BMG. It's just a small arms cartridge, albeit a large one. It won't send human bodies flying through the air, or explode them like prarie dogs. It won't even come close to doing these things. It will make the body twitch more so than whatever rifle was used by Mythbusters, but that's about it.

I could have sworn on the last shot there was a secondary explosion of some sort, like the bullet hit a guy's RPG round in a pack or something. Did you notice that? If it was just an animal, why the explosion? I'm not disputing you. There's a lot of phony stuff on the Net. But the secondary explosion seems odd if just an animal.

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posted on 09/01/2006 10:55:23 PM PDT
by MikeA
(Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)

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